Forecast: 40% chance Earth to be hotter than Paris goal soon
Story Date: 5/28/2021

 

Source: Seth Borenstein, AP NEWS, 5/27/21


There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily push past the temperature limit the Paris climate agreement is trying to prevent, meteorologists said. A new World Meteorological Organization forecast for the next several years also predicts a 90% chance that the world will set yet another record for the hottest year by the end of 2025 and that the Atlantic will continue to brew more potentially dangerous hurricanes than it used to.

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